Last week, our favorite Orchadite and Co-Founder of The Orchard, Richard Gottehrer, hosted a show on East Village Radio. As usual, Richard didn’t disappoint. The show featured tunes from Bo Diddley, The Strangloves, Dum Dum Girls, Dion, George Jones, Spank Rock, and a whole lot more. The show also featured a guest appearance from Ali Boyd who discussed her upcoming documentary The Man is Dead: The Peter Kelley Story about her uncle, Peter Kelley.
You can see photos of the show here, and stream the show in it’s entirety here. IT’S RICHARD ON THE RADIO!
The Orchard will be hosting a Day Party and Official SXSW Showcase on Friday, March 18th. The Day Party is a private event at Bar 96 with performances by Pepper Rabbit, Chris Bathgate, Ivan & Alyosha, and Kina Grannis. The Official Showcase is from 8pm-2am at Cedar Street Courtyard and will be open to SXSW badges and wristbands. The showcase will include performances by Keepaway, Generationals, Dodos, Charles Bradley & The Menahan Street Band, The Black Angels, and The Soundtrack of Our Lives.
As if that wasn’t enough…our CEO, Brad Navin, will be moderating a panel on Friday, March 18th at 3:30pm. Additionally, our Co-founders, Scott Cohen & Richard Gottehrer will be speaking on SXSW panels on March 16th and the 17th.
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Check out The Orchard’s co-founder, Richard Gottehrer, live in the FOX Business studio today. Richard discusses his career in music, and how everything eventually led up to The Orchard. He also gives a shout out to The Black Angels. We love this man!
Last week, Ben Sisario of The New York Times visited The Orchard office to interview our Chief Creative Officer & Founder, Richard Gottehrer. Richard discussed with Ben the early days of rock ‘n’ roll, the early days of The Orchard, and his most recent endeavor, The Black Angels [Blue Horizon Records]. Ben also followed Richard to last week’s Black Angels show along with Richard’s friend and longtime business partner, Seymour Stein.
The result is a fantastic profile of Richard, The Orchard, and our most recent partnership with Sesame Workshop. You can read it online here. We are very proud!
This past Monday, July 26th, one of The Orchard’s founders, Richard Gottehrer, was a guest on Andy Rourke’s East Village Radio radio show, Jet Lag. (You may have heard of Andy’s old band….The Smiths.) As a charming storyteller with a very distinct-sounding voice, Richard is right at home on radio – so turn off your phone, ignore your email, and tune in to the archived show here.
Richard discusses the early days of writing hits like “I’m On Fire” for his idol, Jerry Lee Lewis (he even sings a few bars), and he talks about the beginning of his career as a producer and songwriter in the early ’60s with singles such as “My Boyfriend’s Back” and “I Want Candy”. Richard, who also founded Sire Records with Seymour Stein, reminisces on the early days of Sire with bands like Climax Blues Band, The Deviants, and Focus. Focus’ single “Hocus Focus”, which was recently brought to the spotlight once again for Nike’s epic three minute World Cup commercial, opens the show.
Richard addresses how Blue Horizon came to be in the in the mid ’60s, and he talks about producing chart singles for early Fleetwood Mac and Chicken Shack. He touches on discovering Blondie and Richard Hell at CBGB, and helping build the Sire empire with icons like The Ramones, Talking Heads, Madonna, The Pretenders, and of course…The Smiths.
Richard delves into the creation of The Orchard with Scott Cohen, and how early on they recognized that the Internet would open the flood gates for music. Digital was the next movement in the industry. He discusses the resurgence of Blue Horizon, and he plays a couple tracks from Blue Horizon’s recent signing The Black Angels and their upcoming Phosphene Dream….which are aaaaawesome.
This man has done it all, and you can watch these two music legends gush about it after the jump…
